Currently there are five women running for the presidency of the United States. They are Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobucher, Elizabeth Warren, and Marianne Williamson. Two of them are sorority women. The other three attended colleges where that was not an option. Kirsten Gillibrand, who dropped out hours after this post was published, is a Kappa Kapoa Gamma, initiated at Dartmouth College.
In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith, an alumna initiate of Sigma Kappa, became the first woman to be placed in nomination for presidency at a convention of a major party. A little more than 30 years ago, Patricia Schroeder, a Chi Omega, dipped her toe in the 1988 presidential race. And Elizabeth Dole, a Tri Delta, entered the race in 2000. Shirley Chisholm, and Carol Mosley Braun, Democratic contenders in 1972 and 2004, respectively, shared a Delta Sigma Theta bond.
The sorority women in contention for the nomination are Kamala Harris, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Howard University (Alpha Chapter) and Elizabeth Warren, Kappa Alpha Theta, George Washington University.
Kamala Harris
Several articles have been written about the efforts being mobilized by her Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters to assist Harris in securing the nomination and I encourage you to google them.
Elizabeth Warren, Kappa Alpha Theta
This is at least the second time Warren has tweeted this photo of her as a George Washington student. Note the Kappa Alpha Theta kite to the left of the GW pennant. An astute person asked me about the Delta Gamma anchor visible at the right of the picture. How sure was I that she is a Theta. Perhaps she is a DG? Luckily, I was confident because I confirmed the Theta connection before I included Warren in the list of sorority women who are senators, shortly after Warren posted the picture for the first time.
She’s a Theta, but I think I might have an explanation for the DG anchor on the bulletin board. If that bulletin board was her’s, and it might have been, then that could be one of the many invitations and courtesy notes that were part of recruitment in those days. Also note the White House photo in the bottom right of the bulletin board.
And here is the proof that she indeed a Theta. It is a listing of 1966-67 Theta initiates.
